Oreste Pollicino
Full Professor
Biography
Pollicino Oreste has been Associate Professor at Bocconi since 2007 and became Professor of Constitutional Law and Media Law in 2016. He is also Director of the LL.M. in Law of Internet Technology as well as Co-Director of the Baffi-Careffin Research Center (RULES Bocconi).
He has been a member of the Bocconi Hiring and Promotion Committee since 2017 and a member of the "IUS" Working group, set up by the Dean on the future of law studies.
He was also Principal Investigator (P.I.) of numerous projects, such as the H2020-MG-2018-SingleStage-INEA, financed by the European Commission, on 'Governance principles and methods enabling decision-makers to manage and regulate the changing mobility systems (Gecko ) '; was P.I. also of various projects funded through the Bocconi Senior Grant, in particular, 'A new Season for Constitutionalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence' (2019) and 'Blockchain: Code is (finally) Law? Constitutional, Technological and Economic Challenges' (2018).
His research interests are in Constitutional and Comparative Law, Media Law, Internet Law and Life Sciences Law.
He is Partner & Co-Founder of the DigitalMediaLaws (DML) Law Firm. From 2021, he was appointed Honest Broker by the European Commission as a consultant in the negotiation on the 'European code of practice on disinformation', and by the Communications Authority (AGCOM) as an Independent Expert in the "fact-finding" on digital platforms.
He is a member of the Executive Board, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, Vienna; is part of the Advisory Committee of Members (MCC) of the ELI project on artificial intelligence (AI) and public administration - Developing impact assessments and public participation for digital democracy, 2020; he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Institute for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage - Digital Library, 2021; was appointed by Italy as an independent expert to the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence, 2020 and participated in the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI) of the Council of Europe.
He was born in Messina. He graduated in Law from the University of Messina and obtained an LL.M from the College of Europe in Bruges. He is a lawyer in Milan.
Recent Publications
- 2025
Certification of Business Practices and Algorithms as a Complementary Approach to Platform Regulation
LAVIE, D., O. POLLICINO, T. VALLETTI, "Certification of Business Practices and Algorithms as a Complementary Approach to Platform Regulation", Academy of Management Perspectives, 2025 - 2025
Codice della comunicazione digitale
APA, E., G. PITRUZZELLA, O. POLLICINO - "Codice della comunicazione digitale" - 2025, Egea, Milano, Italy - 2025
Costituzionalismo digitale. Pensare la democrazia al tempo dell'IA
POLLICINO, O. - "Costituzionalismo digitale. Pensare la democrazia al tempo dell'IA" - 2025, Il Mulino, Bologna, Italy - 2025
Is AI the perfect Doctor? Artificial Intelligence’s global impact on the legal and policy boundaries in healthcare
PAOLUCCI, F., O. POLLICINO, A. SACCHI - "Is AI the perfect Doctor? Artificial Intelligence’s global impact on the legal and policy boundaries in healthcare" - 2025, Bocconi University Press - BUP, Milano, Italy - 2025
Regulating AI Autonomy: A Constitutional Framework for the Digital Era
POLLICINO, O., F. PAOLUCCI, "Regulating AI Autonomy: A Constitutional Framework for the Digital Era" in The De Gruyter Handbook on Law and Digital Technologies., Massimo Durante, Ugo Pagallo (Eds.), De Gruyter, pp. 353-382, 2025 - 2025
The European Constitutional Way to Address Disinformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
DE GREGORIO, G., O. POLLICINO, "The European Constitutional Way to Address Disinformation in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", German Law Journal, 2025, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 449-470
Grants & Honors
Bocconi Senior Research Grant, 2022
Bocconi Senior Research Grant, 2019
Horizon Project - GECKO, 2018
Bocconi Senior Research Grant, 2018
